Customer success story

Agency Management for Derbyshire County Council

Helping Derbyshire County Council gain full control and oversight of agency usage, improve compliance confidence, and secure commercially agreeable rates for senior permanent and executive interim vacancies.

Impact at a glance
An efficient, cost-effective approach to agency management. Supporting senior permanent and executive interim vacancies within the Council.
Full control
Oversight of workforce, recruitment activity and costs
30,000+
Employees supported
UK
Region supported
Compliance
Confidence in agency management
Cost-effective
Commercially agreeable rates secured
Programme impact: Comensura helped Derbyshire County Council manage agency usage with greater control, visibility and confidence.
HealthIndustry
30,000+Employees
UKRegion supported
The Situation

Derbyshire County Council needed a well-informed approach to agency recruitment.

A large UK Council workforce

Derbyshire County Council supports a large workforce of more than 30,000 employees across the UK, requiring a recruitment approach that could meet organisational needs with clarity and confidence.

Senior and executive hiring needs

The Council needed agency support to fulfil senior permanent and executive interim vacancies, where quality, commercial control and confidence in the candidate supply were all critical.

A need for control and oversight

The organisation required full control and oversight of its workforce, including who was being recruited, why they were being recruited, and the associated costs.

Client profile
30,000+
Employees supported across Derbyshire County Council.
Recruitment requirement
Senior and executive
Agency support for senior permanent and executive interim vacancies within the Council.
The Challenge

Agency recruitment needed to be efficient, compliant and commercially controlled.

Derbyshire County Council required a partner that could support agency usage for senior permanent and executive interim vacancies while providing greater oversight of recruitment activity, cost and compliance.

01
Workforce oversight

The Council needed full control and oversight of its workforce, including who was being recruited, why they were being recruited, and what costs were involved.

02
Commercial confidence

The Council needed confidence that agency rates were commercially agreeable and aligned with the needs of the organisation.

03
Senior hiring requirements

Senior permanent and executive interim vacancies required a well-informed agency management approach to ensure the right candidates were provided.

04
Compliance confidence

The Council needed to maintain confidence that its organisation’s needs would be met through a compliant and controlled agency supply model.

The Solution

A cost-effective and well-informed agency management approach.

Comensura supported Derbyshire County Council with an efficient agency management solution, helping the Council fulfil senior permanent and executive interim vacancies while maintaining control, compliance and commercial confidence.

01 Agency management expertise +

Comensura provided an efficient, cost-effective and well-informed approach to utilising agency support for the Council’s senior permanent and executive interim vacancies.

02 Commercial rate control +

Comensura’s approach to agency management helped ensure the Council received the most commercially agreeable rates for the vacancies being supported.

03 Workforce visibility +

The partnership supported full control and oversight of the workforce, helping the Council understand who was being recruited, why they were being recruited and the costs involved.

04 Compliance confidence +

Comensura’s agency management model gave the Council confidence that its organisation’s needs would be met by the candidates provided.

Results

Greater control, compliance and confidence in agency recruitment.

The relationship with Comensura helped Derbyshire County Council manage agency usage more effectively, supporting senior permanent and executive interim hiring with a cost-effective and well-informed approach.

Full control
Oversight of workforce, recruitment activity and costs
Compliance
Confidence in agency management
Cost-effective
Commercially agreeable rates
Confidence
Candidate supply aligned to organisational needs

Full workforce oversight

Derbyshire County Council gained greater control and oversight of its workforce, with clearer visibility of who was being recruited, why and at what cost.

Commercially agreeable rates

Comensura’s approach helped the Council receive commercially agreeable agency rates while supporting important senior and executive vacancy requirements.

Compliance confidence

The Council had confidence that agency management was being handled in a controlled, compliant and well-informed way.

Candidate confidence

The Council could be confident that its organisational needs would be met by the candidates being provided through the agency supply model.

What our client says

“Beth and the wider team at Comensura have helped to provide an efficient, cost-effective and well-informed approach to utilising agency to fulfil our senior permanent and executive interim vacancies within the Council.

Our relationship with Comensura and their approach to agency management ensures we are receiving the most commercially agreeable rates whilst having the confidence that the organisation’s needs will be met by the candidates we are provided.”

Toni Fox, Flexible Resourcing Officer at Derbyshire County Council
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